Investigation of environmental impacts of potato production using life cycle assessment
Subject Areas :
ارزیابی پی آمدهای محیط زیستی
Majid Dekamin
1
,
EHSAN KHODAREZAEI
2
1 - Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Malayer University, Malayer, Hamadan, Iran. * (Corresponding Author)
2 - PhD Student of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Received: 2023-09-01
Accepted : 2023-10-02
Published : 2023-09-23
Keywords:
potato,
Agricultural inputs,
Environmental impact,
Sustainable production,
Abstract :
Background and Objective: In recent years, the debate over the environmental sustainability of agricultural productions is increased widely. In this context, environmental impacts of potato production in the Hamadan province (the largest producer of potatoes in Iran) were studied.Material and Methodology: In this research, life cycle assessment approach was used to identify and reduce environmental impacts. Data were collected by face to face interview with farmers in Nahavand (2020-2021). The CML IA method was selected to impact assessment. The environmental impact were assessed for impact categories including involved the global warming potential, depletion of fossil fuel resources potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential and human toxicity potential. Producing one ton of potatoes was determined as a functional unit.Findings: The results showed that the production of one-ton potato consumes 1774.75 MJ energy. It emits 125.52 kg CO2eq, 5.04 kg SO2eq, 1.34 kg PO4eq, 69.4 kg 1,4-DBeq that respectively are involved the global warming potential, depletion of fossil fuel resources potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential and human toxicity potential.Discussion and Conclusion: The analyses revealed that the production of chemical fertilizers and electricity had highest effects on global warming, depletion of fossil fuels and human toxicity. Also, direct emissions from the field because of nitrogen and phosphoric compound in fertilizers had highest effects on eutrophication and acidification.
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Sanjuan-Delmás, D., Llorach-Massana, P., Nadal, A., Ercilla-Montserrat, M., Muñoz, P., Montero, J.I., Josa, A., Gabarrell, X. and Rieradevall, J., 2018. Environmental assessment of an integrated rooftop greenhouse for food production in cities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 177, pp.326-337.
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Khoshnevisan, B., Rafiee, S., Omid, M., Mousazadeh, H., Sefeedpari, P., 2013. Prognostication of environmental indices in potato production using artificial neural networks. Journal of Cleaner Production, 52, pp. 402-409.
Dekamin, M., Barmaki, M., Kanooni, A. and Mosavi, R., 2019. Environmental impact assessment of Soybean cultivation in Ardabil farms. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 21(8), pp.175-184.
Dekamin, M. and Barmaki, M., 2018. Selecting the best environmental friendly oilseed crop by using Life Cycle Assessment, water footprint and analytic hierarchy process methods. Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, pp.1239-1250.
Dekamin, M., Barmaki, M., Kanooni, A. and Meshkini, S.R.M., 2018. Cradle to farm gate life cycle assessment of oilseed crops production in Iran. Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food, 11(4), pp.178-185.
